TradePicsOfEx.com – Another new website causing trouble is TradePicsOfEx.com, which is being spread by messages showing people that their pics are on this website.
The TradePicsOfEx website uses a special message sent out on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook that includes javascript that grabs the reader’s profile pic and inserts it into the message from their friend that asks “Is this u tradepicsofex.com?”
Problem one: Your friend didn’t send you the message. It’s from a spam and scam website.
Problem two: If you logged in at TradePicsOfEx.com, then all your friends are now getting the same spam message from you.
Problem three: If you don’t change your password quick, your profile will get deleted for spamming.
Bottom line? There are no pics of you on this TradePicsOfEx website. There aren’y any pics there at all.
The scam tries to trick people into entering their real email and password at the site, so it can keep sending out more fake messages to bring even more people to the site.
Once you are at TradePicsOfEx.com, they then try to trick you into thinking your “friend” reserved you a “free gift” and all you have to do is complete a couple of merchant offers and you get free phone.
There is no free gift, just like there no pics of you. It’s part of the scam because these idiots make money every time someone completes one of these offers.
How big is this scam? It’s unbelievably huge because it involves hundreds of identical websites and thousands of people getting scammed every day. And it’s been going on for two years now!
Here’s a list of identical websites – just from the past 10 days – that are exactly the same as TradePicsOfEx.com:
They are all served up from a master website controlling the whole scam at http://www.tellafriendrewards.com/taf/taf.html
Do yourself a favor and avoid all these scam websites.
You can read more about this whole scam in the related posts below.
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May 6th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
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May 30th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
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